Chris Christie explains how a Republican connects with a blue state's electorate.

All my friends in politics on the Republican side are feeling dour, angry, frustrated, furrow-browed. That's understandable. Progressivism may look tottery at the moment, but Republicans don't know how to knock it down and are at odds over what to replace it with. Interparty friction is high: The GOP is a bird with a lot of wings. Intellectuals on the conservative side are doing their best to argue through the party's stands, but for all their earnest efforts there's that simmering and intractable thing, the problem with the...